karen carter's adventures

You'd think that being on a three month walk-about would give me plenty of time to write, wouldn't you?    Being a tourist is hard w...

Chontra and his tuktuk met us, with a smile, at 7:30.  The city has been awake for several hours already, getting chores done before it gets...

After two travel days, we arrived in Phnom Penh at midnight, local time.  It has taken longer to learn to spell PP.  I just looked it up.  A...

October 18, 2015 We're ready.  Our friends, Dan and Grace, who timed their sabbatical so perfectly to mesh with our trip, have arrived...

The goal of our Summer 2015 Road Trip was to hike.  Hike as much as possible, every day, in places we had not visited before.  After a googl...

We hitched up the Cottage to our new truck in late June, and headed north.  Our first stop for a few days: Lake Gaston, VA, where our f...

Our hosts at the Whispering Winds cg in Sheffield suggested we'd like the walk to a local secret:  Hector's Falls, in the heart of...